Explosion in London

7 Jul 2005

Quote by Kit
Been waiting for a while to hear from my sister.
She has just contacted me to say all is fine.
Hugs to all who are still waiting for news from loved ones and hugs to all who have endured the same agonies as me for the afternoon and evening.
Kit
xxxxxx

Snogs to you my sweet Kit. I texted Kate earlier too.
kiss

Even had a chat with my favourite Will tonight. Don't forget we all have a date??
:kiss:

7 Jul 2005

Quote by Jags
Been waiting for a while to hear from my sister.
She has just contacted me to say all is fine.
Hugs to all who are still waiting for news from loved ones and hugs to all who have endured the same agonies as me for the afternoon and evening.
Kit
xxxxxx

Snogs to you my sweet Kit. I texted Kate earlier too.
kiss

Even had a chat with my favourite Will tonight. Don't forget we all have a date??
:kiss:
:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: am I supposed to know about this? Is Kat in need of a slap? confused

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7 Jul 2005

Quote by Kit
Been waiting for a while to hear from my sister.
She has just contacted me to say all is fine.
Hugs to all who are still waiting for news from loved ones and hugs to all who have endured the same agonies as me for the afternoon and evening.
Kit
xxxxxx

Snogs to you my sweet Kit. I texted Kate earlier too.
kiss

Even had a chat with my favourite Will tonight. Don't forget we all have a date??
:kiss:
:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: am I supposed to know about this? Is Kat in need of a slap? confused

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uch: :ouch: :ouch: More than one I suspect!! I'll text you in the morning. That'll give you time to limber up! It involves Bedrock.
:inlove:

7 Jul 2005

well my newphew is out of hos! :bounce:
and back home!
my brother is back home allso!........ they are both fine but a few mates have been injured but ok!............. and will be late out shortly!

7 Jul 2005

ok i dont know wether this reply belongs on the spin off thread or here if a mod would like to decide and ask me to move it thats ok but i personally think it belongs in here , now as some of you may have noticed im not that good with words and some may argue this really belongs in the poetry corner , but i have no way to offer a hug to those affected and no way to express my sypathy or rage except in prose so here goes
They came by day and caused a fray
They blew the doors without due cause
They caused the stress for families unneeded
Making pan where peace would be heeded
They disrupt g8 so fueled by hate
Because we took a dictator away
They screw the religion for which they stand
With pain and suffering at satins command
They come along in the name of god
To create the antichrists work
These terrorists running berserk
Canâ€™t they try and make peace work
I have no way to save the souls
So I offer this poem written in haste
To try and comfort the blighted chaste
I have no words to truly say
How much I hate the bombing today
matthew c.e.g. heaysman 7/7/05
erm again im sorry if this offends or is in the wrong place but its where i feel it belongs , and my heart goes out to all affected
matthew

7 Jul 2005

Quote by equi-princess
Probably insurgents despatched to the UK by a very bitter Jacques Chirac..... just because France didn't get the Olympic bid...... lol
equi-princess xxx

All joking aside, this was the first thing alan said to me this morning when we heard about it... i havent even read the rest of the post yet!!!!
He says ... remember the french sas blowing up the greenpeace boat when the french didnt get their own way there either!!

7 Jul 2005

Terrorist depends on which side you're looking at it from.
I can remember a time Mandela was labelled a terrorist....today he's the ultimate freedom fighter.

7 Jul 2005

Mandela never blew up a bus tho did he?
blatant terrorists!

7 Jul 2005

My thoughts and prayers are with all those who have been hurt and their families.
:love: :love:
This is such an ugly act that you cannot justify such an action and I'm sure we find it hard to forgive or forget.
The emergency services, public services crews and the general public have pulled together in such away that I am proud in the way the UK has dealt with this terrible blow.
On a lighter note: I am sure the french thought about it but couldn't oganize it, hence their third failed bid.

7 Jul 2005

I fear this is the start of the campaign against us

7 Jul 2005

Ok, now that i have read the complete thread,im glad to hear everyone that had family and friends in london are safe and well...
On a slightly different note, i was once taught by a history teacher in my school that ETA were not terrorists but "freedom fighters"...

8 Jul 2005

Hi All,
as you might not or might be aware I am from London, but based in canary walf area.(work wise)
first of all i would like to offer my condolances to the family and friends of those who have perished in the sickerning tragerdy.!!!!
2 nights ago i was traverling on the same line as where 2 of the bombs went of. For me being a london i am still in shock......
Luckily i had already arrived at work in the morning, we had one of our work girls on a train in the moorgate area and she called to say she was going to be late there had been an incedent
all hell broke lose in our office with and down we were reallianing on news as and when we got it. it was scary there was rumours flying around.
I had troulbe getting hold of family especially, it took me 3 hrs to get hold of family members who were lucklily not in the area. Family members were also glad to get hold of me.
luckily the great service of the emergency service from what i heard have saved loads of lives. As a person of london i offer my gratidute to the men and women....
I have traverleed in to work this morning and the tube is running with delays. There is an eireee quite and peacefulness around. I would say to people that if you have made plans to come to london please dont put them of. The tourist and retail industry will be effected and it would be good if people could stand up to these B********S and show that the great brithis resolve will not be broken.
MikeC
MikeC

8 Jul 2005

Quote by Nicola&Alan
Ok, now that i have read the complete thread,im glad to hear everyone that had family and friends in london are safe and well...
On a slightly different note, i was once taught by a history teacher in my school that ETA were not terrorists but "freedom fighters"...

I was always told that .. but anyone who bombs the innocent to get their message across is a Terrorist! and I lump the UK and US in with that because we are not blameless either.
C

8 Jul 2005

I have just got up from catching a few hours sleep.
I was deployed to a station on the mainland late yesterfday afternoon and i spent the rest of the day offering tea and an ear to people who were geting off the trains to London.
While I am trained for it and we practoce for these senerios, I have to say it is one the most difficult things I have ever done, even at 4am this morning people were geting of the trains severely traumatised by what they had seen and some by what they hadnt seen but had heard about and had just missed being part of it.
I would ask you to try and remember these poor people further down the line because for a lot of them this is just the begining and the mental scars will take just as long if not longer to heal.

8 Jul 2005

Quote by MISSCHIEF
Not much that's informative or supportive in this post is there Marms!!
A lot of people airing their horror, blame, disbelief, upset, worry - and yes out and out anger. I think most people went through every emotion as this unfolded, who am I to tell them they can't vent that emotion on this discussion thread?

Thanks for agreeing with me there Missy ;-)
One of the way that people deal with grief is to discuss it, some of us find the extra information given by others in an active discussion (as is going on in the other thread) to be helpful, informative and supportive (in that it helps us to understand the situation).
Dawn felt it necessary to segregate comments and discussion points like those I highlighted to a different thread, initially I (quietly) disagreed, in hindsight I see that it was an inspired thing to do, the discussion is going really well and I'm learning shedloads (thanks dawn :thumbup: ).
Except, this isn't the discussion thread about this topic... this is.
Hugs to you, and hope to see you soon biggrin

Chris

8 Jul 2005

Quote by Mikehboy19
Do you reckon its just a coincidence that this happens right after we gain the privaledge of hosting the olympic games in london? Some jealous french or, gawd it could be any country that lost.

There is no coincindence here at all...... 07/07/05
They pick their dates very carefully and I suspect that this was planned months ago... the dates of the G8 Summit AND the announcement of the Olympics 2012 were well know publicly months ago too and this outrage was planned to time with those events.
They knew full well that the returning Olympic Committee would not return joyous when London had been ripped apart by explosions and brought to a standstill.
My heartfelt sympathies go out to all the victims and their relatives.
Thankfully, being from a London family, all of my relatives are safe and well as well as friends that I have working in the city.
One lingering thought remains with me though .... when we faced terrorism by the IRA at least they had the decency - for want of a better word - to warn of bombings a few minutes before (although that is by no means a defence of their brand of terrorism)....but the perpetrators of this latest outrage had one intent...... to kill and maim as many innocents as possible.

8 Jul 2005

Quote by marmalaid
Please be fair Shireen, 3some, N&A, Jen, that it's already been established that this sort of comment or argumentative point should be confined to the discussion thread.

I agree but at the time I posted that I hadn't read the other thread.....

8 Jul 2005

Yesterday morning was horrible.
I was on my way to Uni, on the train, when quite literally I got the shock of my life. I was with 3 friends at the time, and we were all chatting away, when we were thrown from our seats into the adjacent wall of the carriage.
It wasn't our carriage that exploded thankfully, but it was on our train. I'm sad to say that I lost a friend, but it could have been worse. Although I'm obviously sad, I'm grateful that some of us survived the wreck, and it's an experience we'll all carry with us for the rest of our lives.
I've only just got home from yesterday, as I spent the night at my friends bedside. I was the least injured with only a broken arm.
Anyways, I won't go on. I just wondered how it would look when I wrote it down. It still hasn't sunk in yet.
Also, I apologise if this should be in the discussion thread. I couldn't really tell which to put it in sad

8 Jul 2005

Quote by BigBoi
Yesterday morning was horrible.
I was on my way to Uni, on the train, when quite literally I got the shock of my life. I was with 3 friends at the time, and we were all chatting away, when we were thrown from our seats into the adjacent wall of the carriage.
It wasn't our carriage that exploded thankfully, but it was on our train. I'm sad to say that I lost a friend, but it could have been worse. Although I'm obviously sad, I'm grateful that some of us survived the wreck, and it's an experience we'll all carry with us for the rest of our lives.
I've only just got home from yesterday, as I spent the night at my friends bedside. I was the least injured with only a broken arm.
Anyways, I won't go on. I just wondered how it would look when I wrote it down. It still hasn't sunk in yet.
Also, I apologise if this should be in the discussion thread. I couldn't really tell which to put it in

I'm so sorry you had to go through that.......and that you lost a friend.....my thoughts and prayers are with you.

8 Jul 2005

Thank you. I really appreciate it.
I feel bad that I put it on the thread now... So sorry. I know it kinda brings you down a bit. It's just that I wanted to tell someone without them breaking down in tears in front of me, which is what everyone I know is doing.
Thanks again smile

8 Jul 2005

Bigboi
I'm sorry to hear that, I mean really sorry.

8 Jul 2005

Ah thanks alot. I'm kinda cheered up now (If you can believe that :P )
I'm better than I was. It's hard, and it'll get harder, but theres no other way to go but forward.

8 Jul 2005

I know what you mean...
i shouldn't have go into work today.. my head wasn't straight, left earlier than i would normally do...couldn't bring myself to go on the metro this evening, so walked across the tyne bridge...
spoke to my mum and she is shaken up... they had debriefings at Great Ormond Street this morning, they took in 40 of the most seriously injured from the russell square underground and the tavistock sq bus bombing, they think they may have lost 3 nurses...
the amazing thing for me is the amount of problems and troubles i have had today from people who couldn't get past thinking about themselves today...I work for GNER, The police gave us 2 platforms to run trains in/out of london, the rest of it is a crime scene, you would think people would be just a bit more understanding or our situation..... the majority have been brilliant but a few of them almost had me in tears...

8 Jul 2005

Don't apologise for sharing that with us Boi :therethere:
I can't even begin to imagine how much pain you have suffered since yesterday sad

I send you and your friends my very best wishes xxxxxxxxxxxx

8 Jul 2005

Im still stunned. We have not long got home as we have been in Somerset this week and the first we knew was a phone call from a friend telling us the news, that a bomb has gone off near the hotel hes supposed to be staying in this weekend.....yeah right....stop messing i thought, thats not a nice joke :shock: No joke.....serious. Still cant take it in, the tube lines and route that I take on a regular basis have been attacked, the exact line i took my 3 yr old son on, to meet up with a friend for lunch in London. The possibility of this attack happening whilst travelling with my son has hit home hard, as this has happened to someone on Thursday.
We had to make a few phone calls but when we got home found we had some phone calls from people wondering where we were, knowing we are close to where the attacks have taken place and that we are regular tube travellers.
We had planned to meet up with friends this Saturday for the REM concert in Hyde Park but thats been cancelled, we will still travel in and meet up for drinks at Covent Garden or somewhere. Im still waiting to hear if the London Eye will be running on Sunday, as I had booked tickets for us and our friends to go on. Such a sad and dispicable event, but I for one wont be made to retreat to a hole by terrorism.
Hugs for all those affected in anyway.....
:love:

8 Jul 2005

I've just come from GOSH Fabio, so maybe I saw your mum smile

Although I don't recall seeing a nurse grooverider lol

I had to get the train back home too. Not exactly the best idea because I broke down in tears as I went through Kings Cross...There goes my masculinity then! I think it helped going on the tube though, it sort of gave me a reassurance and deminished the fear of it for me.
Ah well, I don't like being negative. I'm a happy guy most of the time. I just have to try and get on as normal now, although with London still virtually at a standstill its proving easier said than done

8 Jul 2005

i'm very sorry to hear your story BigBoi - my thoughts and prayers are with you.
Write whatever you feel you want to in here, we're here to listen and help.
Mike.

8 Jul 2005

Quote by MikeNorth
i'm very sorry to hear your story BigBoi - my thoughts and prayers are with you.
Write whatever you feel you want to in here, we're here to listen and help.
Mike.

:thumbup:

8 Jul 2005

Wow thanks.
I honestly didn't expect anyone to take notice. It was just something I needed to put out in front of me and air it before the frustration and confusion sent me mad.
Thanks again, you have no idea how much better I feel now biggrin

8 Jul 2005

A friend of mine working for the rail service...(not sure wot his job is exactly) got taken from P'boro to London via helicopter tonight. Just hoping its not more bad news. Will let u know if i hear any more...